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Jul 30 2007 5:13AM EDT

Matt's Groaning

As anyone paying any attention to popular culture would have predicted, The Simpsons Movie opened big over the weekend. Big? More like huge. Domestic ticket sales of close to $72 million on opening weekend. For a cartoon.

What was just as easy to predict, but a lot less funny were some of the articles about the movie's box-office pull. With apologies to Simpsons' creator Matt Groening, here are a few examples:

Hollywood Reporter (anticipating a smash hit): "By weekend's end, The Simpsons Movie should be rolling in plenty of d'oh."

Los Angeles Times: "The Simpsons Movie is bringing in plenty of "d'oh!"

CNN.com: "Simpsons rakes in plenty of 'd'oh' at box office"

Not everyone abused Homer's favorite exclamation. Some focused on his favorite snack:

Associated Press: "The Simpsons Movie turned doughnuts into dollars over the weekend..."

And a few went the literary route:

Hollywood Reporter again: "Homer's odyssey ends at the top."

Paul Dergarabedian, president of box-office tracker Media By Numbers and a popular source of instant box-office analysis: "Homer's odyssey paid off."

One can only hope that everyone's gotten it all out of their systems.

by Mark Stein

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